This is the Computer History Wiki, a knowledge base about historic computers which anyone can edit. Currently, we've got [[Special:Statistics|{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}]] articles!

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This is the Computer History Wiki, a knowledge base about historic computers which anyone can join in order to edit. (Due to past problems with spam, anonymous editing and automatic account creation have had to be disabled.)

For an introduction to MediaWiki syntax and Computer History Wiki conventions, please see [[Help:Contents|Help]].

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This wiki is an experiment to create a means for knowledgeable people to enter their information into some kind of a knowledge base. This is however, not the relatively formalized tone and style imposed by Wikipedia. Sentences starting with "I seem to recall" are perfectly welcome here - and articles do '''not''' have to be in the descriptive, encyclopedic style Wikipedia enforces. On the contrary, it is ''preferred'' that many of the articles be references, guides, helpful hints, suggestions, [[:Category:Tutorials|tutorials]] and so on.

This wiki is an experiment to create a means for knowledgeable people to enter their information into some kind of a knowledge base. This is however, not the relatively formalized tone and style imposed by Wikipedia. Sentences starting with "I seem to recall" are perfectly welcome here - and articles do '''not''' have to be in the descriptive, encyclopedic style Wikipedia enforces. On the contrary, it is ''preferred'' that many of the articles be references, guides, helpful hints, suggestions, [[:Category:Tutorials|tutorials]] and so on.

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This English wiki stems from frustration [[User:Toresbe|Tore Sinding Bekkedal]] experienced with adding information to the [http://www.nodaf.no Norwegian Computer History Society wiki] when he realized that his content would only be accessible to those who understood Norwegian.

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If you have any information you want to contribute to this wiki, '''please, contribute it'''. We'd much rather remove or modify a dozen potentially unsuited submissions than miss out on a single good one. We hope this wiki grows into a useful resource for everyone interested in classic computing, no matter what their level of knowledge may be; it is meant to be all-encompassing. -- [[User:Toresbe|Tore]] & [[User:Lucky|Lucky]] 16:11, 16 May 2007 (PDT)

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If you have any information you want to contribute to this wiki, '''please, do it'''. We'd much rather remove or modify a dozen potentially unsuited submissions than miss out on a single good one.

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==Getting an account==

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We hope this wiki grows into a useful resource for everyone interested in classic computing, no matter what their level of knowedge may be. We realize that there are more specific wikis for [[Commodore 64|Commodore]] and Amiga and so on, but this is a general wiki for everything related to historical computing; it is meant to be all encompassing.

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As noted above, due to past problems with spam, you need an account to edit. [[User:Toresbe|Tore]], who handles requests for accounts filed via the system, is often busy, but I too am happy to create accounts - just email me (jnc at alum dot mit dot edu). Please let me know what account name you'd like, and what email address to associate with it, and I'll try and get right to it. The system will send you an email with a temporary password; if you don't see it, and I have sent you an acknowledgement, check your spam-traps: we've had issues with that. [[User:Jnc|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc|talk]]) 15:33, 22 October 2017 (CEST)

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If you're not sure what to add, the [[Special:WantedPages|Wanted pages]] page is always a good place to start! Right at the moment, two [[Apple II]] pages, and a [[Windows]] page, are top of the list. So if you have any expertise there, please weigh in! [[User:Jnc|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc|talk]]) 21:44, 2 August 2017 (CEST)

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The current URL is temporary as this is an experiment to see if people will actually make edits and find it useful. If it "catches on" as we suspect it will, [[User:Toresbe|Tore]] will of course register a domain with an appropriate name. The threshold for "catches on" is quite low - as a worst case scenario, this becomes a one-user Content Management System -- [[User:Toresbe|Tore]] & [[User:Lucky|Lucky]] 16:11, 16 May 2007 (PDT)

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* We're still around! [[User:Lucky|Lucky]] 03:51, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

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Revision as of 16:34, 22 October 2017

Contents

Welcome to the Computer History Wiki!

This is the Computer History Wiki, a knowledge base about historic computers which anyone can join in order to edit. (Due to past problems with spam, anonymous editing and automatic account creation have had to be disabled.)

For an introduction to MediaWiki syntax and Computer History Wiki conventions, please see Help.

Introduction by the Administrators

This wiki is an experiment to create a means for knowledgeable people to enter their information into some kind of a knowledge base. This is however, not the relatively formalized tone and style imposed by Wikipedia. Sentences starting with "I seem to recall" are perfectly welcome here - and articles do not have to be in the descriptive, encyclopedic style Wikipedia enforces. On the contrary, it is preferred that many of the articles be references, guides, helpful hints, suggestions, tutorials and so on.

If you have any information you want to contribute to this wiki, please, contribute it. We'd much rather remove or modify a dozen potentially unsuited submissions than miss out on a single good one. We hope this wiki grows into a useful resource for everyone interested in classic computing, no matter what their level of knowledge may be; it is meant to be all-encompassing. -- Tore & Lucky 16:11, 16 May 2007 (PDT)

Getting an account

As noted above, due to past problems with spam, you need an account to edit. Tore, who handles requests for accounts filed via the system, is often busy, but I too am happy to create accounts - just email me (jnc at alum dot mit dot edu). Please let me know what account name you'd like, and what email address to associate with it, and I'll try and get right to it. The system will send you an email with a temporary password; if you don't see it, and I have sent you an acknowledgement, check your spam-traps: we've had issues with that. Jnc (talk) 15:33, 22 October 2017 (CEST)

Wanted Pages

If you're not sure what to add, the Wanted pages page is always a good place to start! Right at the moment, two Apple II pages, and a Windows page, are top of the list. So if you have any expertise there, please weigh in! Jnc (talk) 21:44, 2 August 2017 (CEST)

News

Major version update - Mediawiki has been updated to latest release. If there are any problems that should appear, please let me know. -- Tore (talk) 16:13, 15 April 2018 (CEST)

Category work - As a result of an observation about Web crawlers being able to find all our content pages, I've started a major campaign to improve categories, make sure all articles are tagged, etc. I have some queries; see here (the best place I could think of to discuss them, since we've had similar discussions there before). Jnc (talk) 00:40, 11 June 2018 (CEST)